Greenfield Village buys historic house with ties to MLK
The Henry Ford bought an important civil rights landmark in Alabama and plans to bring it to Michigan. It's the...
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CuriosiD: What’s up with all these pheasants?
WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this...
Charting the course of pop music through its number one hits
The history of pop music is still being written. Not just in the weekly Billboard updates on what’s at the...
How Did We Get Here? A Visual Timeline of Mass Transit in Southeast Michigan
Did you know that commuter rail service ran between Detroit and Ann Arbor as late as 1984? Or that Detroit...
CuriosiD: How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States?
WDET listener Priya Ganji has a diverse group of friends of Arab heritage, and she’s noticed their family, religious...
CuriosiD: Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal
Listener Alli Harnish submitted this question to CuriosiD, and the WDET audience voted to have it answered. Are the many different Cass...
The Essential Conversation: WDET’s Ann Delisi with Photographer Leni Sinclair (Part 1)
Cybelle Codish, Photographer "I may not have much money, but I feel wealthy beyond measure." --Leni Sinclair In June, Leni...
Film to Document Origin of Creem Magazine in Detroit’s Cass Corridor
Creem magazine writer and current Detroit News reporter Susan Whitall and former Creem editor Bill Holdship join Ann Delisi...
“Terror In The City Of Champions” Explores Violence in Depression-Era Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET In his new book "Terror in the City of Champions" author Tom Stanton juxtaposes violent gang activity with sports success...
CuriosiD: What’s Up With All These Pheasants?
In this episode of CuriosiD, listener Jenni Sheridan Moss asks... How have pheasants survived and thrived in the urban setting of...
The Detroit Origins of Atomic Bomb “Little Boy”
At the corner of Mt Elliott and McNichols, in Northeast Detroit, there's an unassuming machine shop that sits in the middle...
CuriosiD: How A 1900s Black Detroit Community Was Razed For A Freeway
This week’s installment of CuriosiD investigates a question from listener Peter Pasque of Ann Arbor. “A good friend of mine...